Our 2nd to last dive was at White Slave. There are tiny (I mean tiny) concrete 5'x 3' huts that the slaves used to sleep in back in the day before they automated salt removal from the island flats. Now the mountains of salt travel by conveyor belt right out to the sea where they are dumped into cargo boats for transport, processing and your local grocer.
This black angel fish had no fear at all and seemed to want to hold a conversation.
After hardly seeing any morays during the week we ran across three or four black spotted morays today. That was a good thing because the population had a blight last fall and the morays took a big hit. This guy was a real cutie.
Another spotted Eagle Ray swam by. They like to cruise up and down the reef looking for something interesting to see...kind of what we do too.
You may think these are coral growing out of the sand but they are really garden eels that come up out of their holes and wave around hoping something tasty swims by. This is actually known as an 'eel garden' and there were dozens of them in this garden.
When you swim too close they get shy and retreat into their hole. Alex used the zoom on the camera to get this picture of these two peeking out to see if we were gone yet.
I think this is a yellow perch. Gregg likes to photograph these guys.
This one looked like the younger brother to the big moray we saw at the other end of the reef.
Today was also flounder day. We saw three of them in a row. They are hard to spot since they are completely flat (except for their googly eyes) and change color to camoflauge with the the sea floor. I chased one around for a while...thinking of how good he would taste for dinner... and Alex almost stepped on this one as we were exiting the dive.
And here is a picture of our trusty truck and the slave huts. I told you they were small.
At the end of this dive it was about 9am, we need to wait about an hour before diving our last dive of the trip. That dive will be at Atlantis.
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